Comic #4351: neuroses

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Panel 1:

• Person 1: "Sometimes, I worry I’m not repressing anything."
• Person 2: "What if I don’t secretly want to kill anything or have sex with anything? What if I’m not an animal with barely-restrained primal passions?"

Panel 2:

• Person 1: "Like, this relaxed civilized exterior? What if it’s not a shell, but merely the outermost layer? What if it’s this all the way down?"

Panel 3:

• Person 2: "To thine own self be true."

Panel 4:

• Person 1: "Exactly! The character who says that gets killed by the famous main character!"

Panel 5:

• Person 1: "I guess that’s it. I’m Polonius. I stand around offering advice to people who won’t take it, watching the lives of greater people from afar, then one day I will suddenly, pointlessly die."

Panel 6:

• Person 2: "Was that your point?"
• Person 1: "I really didn’t think you’d catch it."